The Senate passed a resolution to display a plaque honoring law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol after House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to implement a 2022 federal law requiring its display. The resolution allows the plaque to be displayed in the Senate wing until a permanent location is agreed upon with the House.
The office of House Speaker Mike Johnson , R-La., has argued that the 2022 federal law requiring the plaque's display at the Capitol was"not implementable."A replica of the plaque dedicated to law enforcement that was approved by Congress in 2022 is displayed outside of a hearing held by Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday.
the Architect of the Capitol “to prominently display, in a publicly accessible location in the Senate wing of the United States Capitol, a plaque honoring the members of law enforcement responding on January 6, 2021, until the plaque can be placed in its permanent location.”The bipartisan resolution was introduced by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., refused to hang the plaque as required by a 2022 federal law. Johnson’s office has argued that the law was “not implementable” because the legislative language from that bill said the plaque should display the names of officers who protected the Capitol, while the plaque that was produced named the law enforcement agencies that responded to the Capitol siege.in President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, leading a legal brief that sought to disenfranchise voters in four key swing states that Joe Biden won. TheFormer D.C. police officer Nathan Tate was one of the officers who defended the U.S. Capitol five years ago. He shares what it was like for him that day. Tillis, who is not seeking re-election, told reporters after the resolution passed that there were two locations they think would be good places for the plaque: on the first floor where visitors check in for meetings in offices at the Capitol, or on the third floor where tours take visitors on their way to see the gallery above the Senate chamber to watch Senate proceedings. Tillis, an outspoken supporter of the Capitol Police efforts on Jan. 6 and a critic of those who have downplayed the attack, called the resolution “a fast way to get it up, and then it will stay up until a final permanent place is found.” “Until I heard the report of saying it was unimplementable, I just thought it was typical D.C. bureaucracy, because it’s hard to move things around here, you know, even little things in our offices, because of historic implications,” Tillis said. “So, I said, ‘All right, we got a defect, let’s fix it.’ So that’s how we fixed it in three days.” The resolution passed by unanimous consent, meaning no roll call vote was needed since all 100 senators agreed not to object. It does not need to be passed by the House or signed by Trump to be implemented.“It’s so important that we fulfill the vision of the 2022 law and get this plaque up to honor those police officers,” Merkley said on the Senate floor Thursday. “What this resolution is saying is we in the Senate will put it up here in a publicly available space until a deal can be reached with the House of Representatives to display it. Both chambers have to agree on that, but to put it up here in the Senate in a place where the public can see it, that we can do here on our own.”, which led to criminal charges against Trump that were dropped after he was elected in 2024. Former special counsel Jack Smith, who brought those charges, recently told lawmakers that Trump was “inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence ” on Jan. 6 and that Trump knowingly spread “demonstrably and, in many cases, obviously false” claims about the 2020 election. Brendan Ballou, a former Jan. 6 prosecutor for the Justice Department now representing officers who sued over the government’s failure to follow the law requiring the plaque’s display, said litigation over the plaque will continue even after Senate passage of the resolution. Senators reacted to an executive order by President Trump that pardoned over 1,500 people charged with crimes in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Ballou told NBC News that he’s pleased the plaque will “ensure that the officers who defended those inside are honored.”“Just wait 10 more months. Hakeem will be speaker and we will place it in the place of honor. Yes, we will,” Pelosi said in the Capitol on the fifth anniversary of the riot.
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